• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Do you not accept that although there is great merit in this strategy and the range of issues there can, for example, be instances where it is more ecologically sound to grow produce in a place where the weather and climate encourages that, and when you factor in the transport cost it is actually less harmful to the environment than force feeding heat into a greenhouse in the South East of England? Things are not always them seem. Additionally, if you look at the carbon costs of food production and shopping, it is as much the final trip of a...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

If we put forward a series of recommendations on indirect emissions from food, then those will be taken?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Thank you. Thank you for that figure of 11% because I did not have that. In fact what it means is that food, with its indirect and direct emissions, probably accounts for more than transport actually does: perhaps not if you include aviation, but certainly for ground based transport. On your Climate Change Action Plan we broadly very much welcome this, but it was a bit disappointing you did not mention food more. I can see you trust me completely because you are saying, `The Food Strategy lays out some of these issues' and that is what you have just...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

There is spinach and broccoli and things like that.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Has it occurred to you it might be an idea not to eat green beans? Has that crossed your mind?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Good.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Do you see this as an educational campaign that you could take forward through your Mayoral campaign?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You just talked about having rows with the supermarkets. Do you envisage having attempted constructive discussions with the supermarkets about encouraging more local production? I can remember once being in Marks & Spencer's and hearing a manager saying, `I do not know why these strawberries are not going' and I had been listening - because it is leafy Richmond and they are aware of these things - I had been listening to shoppers saying, `I cannot buy those, they have just been flown in from the US, where are the English ones?' It is something about encouraging supermarkets to pick...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It is really harking back to the point that has been made about runway expansion earlier. Just to say that in the light of consultation responses to the Further Alterations to the London Plan and to bring it in line with your Climate Change Action Plan, you are proposing to amend your policy on runway expansion in order for that to be a policy of no further runway expansion. I thought that might be helpful. This will be submitted in a statement.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

This Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation Strategy. Is that going to deal with indirect emissions?